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muriel_volestrangler

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2. Commentary: this gives Trump the chance to allow Russia to launder as much cash as it wants
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 03:34 PM
Mar 2025
In essence, the United States has agreed to let Russia rebuild its economic and military capacity in exchange for a thirty-day ceasefire in the Black Sea, a prisoner exchange, a moratorium on hitting energy targets, and a few other mutual steps by Kyiv and Moscow.

How much has Witkoff capitulated to Putin while throwing Ukraine and our NATO allies under the bus? That’s unclear. It depends on what the U.S. agreement to help Russia “access to the world market for agricultural and fertilizer exports, lower maritime insurance costs, and enhance access to ports and payment systems for such transactions” involves. Moscow says that the U.S. has to end sanctions on Russia’s agricultural bank.
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In principle, such a step could enable Russia to launder any number of unrelated transactions through the bank, thereby evading the single most important component of the current sanctions regime. But don’t worry. I’m sure the Trump administration will approach any such arrangement with the careful oversight, technical competency, and aversion to corruption that have become hallmarks of its approach to governance.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/03/making-russia-great-again-again

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